Texas Republican group seeks to block certification of state’s election
Republicans in a Texas county have filed a lawsuit asking for ballots in the state's midterm races to be hand-counted.
Days before the United States’ pivotal midterm elections, a Texas group affiliated with the Republican Party has asked a federal judge to stop certification of the state’s upcoming election results.
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Potter County Republican Party and its chairman, Daniel Rogers, claim potential election interference by artificial intelligence (AI) or “malicious actors” that could compromise the results of next Tuesday’s elections in Texas.
The plaintiffs, who are asking for a hand count of every ballot from every precinct in the state before election certification happens, allege voting machines have components inside made by China that would allow them to be manipulated.
“The real likelihood of a clever and undetected hack by recently developed AI programs, which conceal their activity to avoid detection, reinforces the need for a full verification based on hand-counting of all paper records or ballots in all Texas precincts, prior to certification of the federal results,” they wrote.